Free Credit Monitoring for Compromised Students: Ed Dept
Now the Education Department is offering a sop after causing the harm. What am I talking about — The personal data of 21,000 student loan borrowers recently appeared on the Education Department Website. As solution, the department has offered to arrange for free credit monitoring for these students. Seattlepinwsource.com reports:
Terri Shaw, the department’s chief operating officer for federal student aid, said the people involved are holders of federal direct student loans who used the department’s loan Web site - http://www.dlssonline.com - between Sunday and Tuesday. It is the latest in a string of data thefts and security breaches affecting more than a half-dozen federal agencies in recent months.
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